[ARC5] command set trivia

[W4AWM at aol.com]

Thanks for that.  I'll have to watch TORA TORA TORA again.
 
73,
 
John,  W4AWM
 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 10/10/2013 5:57:06 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
arc5 at ix.netcom.com writes:

Thank  you, Gordon!  Very cool.
For those who might be  interested:

Suddenly, shortly before 08:00 on December 7, Japanese  planes roared 
overhead, shattering the Sunday peace and punctuating it  with the 
explosion 
of bombs and the staccato hammering of machine guns.  Capt. Van Valkenburgh 
sped forward from his cabin and arrived on the  navigation bridge where he 
immediately began to direct his ship's defense.  A quartermaster in the 
pilot 
house asked if the captain wanted to go to  the conning tower-a 
less-exposed 
position in view of the Japanese  strafing-but Van Valkenburgh refused to 
do 
so and continued to man a  telephone, fighting for his ship's life.
A violent explosion suddenly shook  the ship, throwing the three occupants 
of 
the bridge-Van Valkenburgh, an  ensign, and the quartermaster, to the deck, 
and shattering the bridge  windows. Dazed and shaken, the ensign stumbled 
through the flames and  smoke and escaped, but the others were never seen 
again. A continuing  fire, fed by ammunition and oil, blazed for two days 
until finally being  put out on December 9. A subsequent search recovered 
only Van  Valkenburgh's Annapolis class ring.

The captain posthumously received  the Medal of Honor-the citation reading 
in 
part: "for devotion to duty ...  extraordinary courage, and the complete 
disregard of his own  life."

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